{"id":32056,"date":"2020-06-16T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=32056"},"modified":"2020-06-07T22:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T20:43:04","slug":"french-vocabulary-anatomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-vocabulary-anatomy\/","title":{"rendered":"French Vocabulary – Anatomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here on the Transparent Language French Blog we\u2019ve covered the parts of the body<\/a> and (more than once) the parts of the face<\/a>. One thing we\u2019ve never done (at least as far as I can tell) is gone inside. So this week we turn to \u2026 les parties du corps<\/strong> \u2026<\/p>\n

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Photo by\u00a0Retha Ferguson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0Pexels<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Inside Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Les organes internes<\/strong> \/ Internal organs<\/em><\/p>\n

De la t\u00eate au pieds<\/b> (from head to toes<\/em>) what we see on the outside is only part of what makes people, people. So let’s look a little deeper.<\/p>\n

Le cerveau \/ la cervelle <\/strong><\/p>\n

In French there are two words for brain<\/em>. Well, ok, sort of. One, le cerveau<\/strong>, does translate as the brain<\/em> and generally refers to the physical brain inside your cr\u00e2ne<\/strong> (skull)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The other, la cervelle<\/strong>, I would actually translate as brains<\/em> and it is used both in the culinary sense (on mange de la cervelle<\/strong> \/ one eats brains \u2026<\/em> well, I don\u2019t! but some people do ? \u2026 ) and in the metaphysical sense of \u2018smarts\u2019 (il n\u2019a rien dans la cervelle<\/strong> \/ He\u2019s got nothing in his brain \u2026 he\u2019s not very smart).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo by\u00a0Magdaline Nicole<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Le c\u0153ur<\/strong><\/p>\n

The French term for heart<\/em>, like the English, can have many meanings. It refers:<\/p>\n